The Mother and the Law

A re-edited version of the fourth episode of Intolerance (1916); two youth are made homeless by a strike, and struggle valiantly to survive their desolate situation, which worsens as reform-minded citizens remove the couple's child from their care and the young father is falsely accused and convicted of murder.

Cast

Mae Marsh

as The Little Dear One

Robert Harron

as The Boy

Miriam Cooper

as The Friendly One

Vera Lewis

as Miss Mary Jenkins

Sam De Grasse

as Arthur Jenkins

Clyde E. Hopkins

as Jenkins' Secretary

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